Earlier Recipients
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- 2004 Maureen Duffy
- 2003 Anita Desai
- 2002 David Sutton
- 2001 Christopher Fry
- 1990 Wole Soyinka Nadine Gordimer
- 1981 Sir Sacheverell Sitwell
- 1980 R. K. Narayan
- 1975 Philip Larkin
- 1972 A. L. Rowse
- 1966 J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1939 Christopher Hassall John Gawsworth
- 1937 E.M.Forster
- 1928 George Santayana
- 1923 Lytton Strachey
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